"Please," Felicity begged, her voice trembling with desperation as she grabbed the hem of his jacket. Fear flooded her eyes, making her words quiver. "Take me away from the monsters."
Wanderer grinned, a sharp, jackal-like expression twisting his lips but leaving his eyes cold. As he wrapped his arm around her waist, a thrill of possessive excitement surged through him. His spatial energy began to hum audibly, the air shimmering with urgent, violet distortion.
"Don't worry, little one," he whispered, his face leaning uncomfortably close to hers. "I'm going to keep you all to myself."
As the world began to fold and tear, a jolt of panic shot through Felicity, her pulse thundering in her ears. She squeezed her eyes shut, her hand gripping the cracked marble with white-knuckled force. A sense of unreality pressed in as she moved, leaving the trail and plunging into the unknown with a man she intended to break.
